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Permalink Reply by Keith Stanford on October 23, 2013 at 5:44am

As a follow up to my earlier message with that video (see below) of the young fellow playing his ukulele and 'tapping' out a rhythm on it, I re-watched it and noticed at the beginning that he plugged in TWO cords into TWO jacks....making me think he has TWO separate 'pick-up' set ups.  Guessing he is using plastic strings, he would then be using two piezos, each independently going to the amp. 

When he taps on one spot on his Uke, he gets a typical high treble piezo sound.  But when he taps on the other piezo, he gets a bass sound. I am guessing that is done by having two different piezos going through two different cords on the amp, and setting one with high treble and one with high bass.  WHAT A NOVEL IDEA FOR FUTURE Cigar Box BUILDS!

Another way of getting a similar (but not as good) sound would be to just incase one of the piezos in hot-glue and run both piezos through he same single cord like we normally do.

Here is that video again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZCJdkUie2U&list=PLUKm6sWfH8OHgO...

Your thoughts?

kieta

Permalink Reply by Zeb on January 27, 2014 at 4:06am

 I made a solid body elec. The body looks strat-ish out of pine. It looks really cool. I also made a small piezo pre amp and put vol and tone controls on it.

  To be honest I do not like the way it sounds. To high pitched. Almost shrill.  It's been laying for quite a while and I'm thinking about what to do. Maybe change strings to heavier Baritone strings and change or remove the cap on the preamp to let more low freqs thru. Currently it's re entrant tuning. I don't like that either. What I should probably do is bread board the amp and just run leads to the pickup until it sounds right. That allows you to make a lot of changes fast with no soldering. Then once it's right, solder it in.  

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